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| Subject | Re: OT - For most of history, humans got smarter. That's now reversing. |
| From | Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> |
| References | (9 earlier) <4d057f55-9631-4b67-979a-bacb36892607@googlegroups.com> <XnsA90D56E82372Etaustingmail@69.16.179.43> <pgtubk$hm$1@dont-email.me> <XnsA90D711316F28taustingmail@69.16.179.42> <pgu3kj$4n4$1@dont-email.me> |
| Message-ID | <XnsA90D81A80B272taustingmail@69.16.179.42> (permalink) |
| Organization | Forte - www.forteinc.com |
| Date | 2018-06-26 12:44 -0700 |
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote in
news:pgu3kj$4n4$1@dont-email.me:
> On 6/26/2018 11:06 AM, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote in
>> news:pgtubk$hm$1@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> On 6/26/2018 8:32 AM, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>>>> mcdowell_ag@sky.com wrote in
>>>> news:4d057f55-9631-4b67-979a-bacb36892607@googlegroups.com:
>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 6:38:02 AM UTC+1, Ninapenda
>>>>> Jibini wrote:
>>>>>> Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>> news:XnsA90A16157B959melchizedek@216.166.97.131:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote in news:XnsA9096C9749CDEtaustingmail@69.16.179.43:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>> news:67856068-af4e-45ef-a39e-ad9f54df54c9@googlegroups.com
>>>>>>>> :
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 3:48:22 AM UTC-4,
>>>>>>>>> peterw...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 5:34:50 PM UTC-5, James
>>>>>>>>>> Nicoll wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> In article
>>>>>>>>>>> <6fbd9cec-bd1b-4c85-9403-0c5495a773f2@googlegroups.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> , John Halpenny <j.halpenny@rogers.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 5:40:51 PM UTC-4,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The only thing an IQ test measures is the ability to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> take an IQ test.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't think that an IQ test is a great measure of
>>>>>>>>>>>> your worth as a person, or that declining scores are
>>>>>>>>>>>> a sign of the end of the world.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Having said that:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> For centuries, intelligent, healthy and good-looking
>>>>>>>>>>>> people have sought out other intelligent, healthy and
>>>>>>>>>>>> good-looking people with the goal of raising a family
>>>>>>>>>>>> with perhaps five or ten intelligent, healthy and
>>>>>>>>>>>> good-looking kids. More recently, large families have
>>>>>>>>>>>> gone out of style and only the "less favoured" are
>>>>>>>>>>>> left to produce a significant number of children.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Discuss possible outcomes of this?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> You had lots of siblings?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I would expect a terrible plague of people posting
>>>>>>>>>>> thinly disguised Marching Morons nonsense in the one
>>>>>>>>>>> group where people are likely to recognize the source.
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> It's not just from _The Marching Morons_; this idea was
>>>>>>>>>> a major premise of the whole eugenics movement. The
>>>>>>>>>> Nazi party notoriously adapted it into their own
>>>>>>>>>> policies. Forced sterilization on eugenic grounds has
>>>>>>>>>> been carried out in western countries until
>>>>>>>>>> surprisingly recently.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We're smarter than any other animal, and evolved our
>>>>>>>>> intelligence. There's no way intelligence could evolve
>>>>>>>>> unless its (a) inheritable, and (b) enough variant
>>>>>>>>> within the population to affect the ability to have
>>>>>>>>> grandchildren. This is true for every evolved trait.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You're dancing on the grave of the idea of how many
>>>>>>>> different definitions of intelligence there are.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Absolutely. But regardless of what trait or traits make us
>>>>>>> capable of thinking better than (for example) a dog, those
>>>>>>> trait(s) evolved. Evolution requires inheritance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That is one type of intelligence. Dozens of other types
>>>>>> have been documented scientifically.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And most of them do not appear to have fuckall of a genetic
>>>>>> component.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, however defined, 'intelligence' is inheritable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not according to the peer reviewed research, for most of
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you not believe in science?
>>>>>
>>>>> Some recent science - article at
>>>>> https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-discovered-almos
>>>>> t- 1- 000-new-genes-associated-with-intelligence claims to
>>>>> be reporting an article in Nature Genetics
>>>>>
>>>>> An international team conducted a large-scale genetic
>>>>> association study of intelligence and discovered 190 new
>>>>> genomic loci and 939 new genes linked with intelligence,
>>>>> significantly expanding our understanding of the genetic
>>>>> bases of cognitive function.
>>>>>
>>>> And nurture is still far more important.
>>>>
>>> "The beatings will continue until intelligence improves."
>>> (Though probably not in a way the beater will like.)
>>>
>> There's a masturbation joke in there somewhere ("beating off"),
>> but I'm too busy with the T-1 Upgrade From Hell (and too lazy)
>> to dig for it.
>>
> The original line was supposed to be a joke about how companies
> treat their employees, "The beatings will continue until morale
> improves"
Yeah, I got that.
> but you've given that a whole new spin now.
>
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